There's a fascinating story from “>within copyright's ambit — in fact, contrary to what this article suggests, all original quilt patterns are automatically copyrighted the minute they are stitched.

Members of the Lancaster Old Order Amish settlement have long been prolific land buyers, according to a trend first identified in 1995 by Elizabethtown College associate professor of sociology Dr.

Join Pattern and Paradox contributor and textile historian Janneken Smucker for insights into the history of Amish quilts and the works featured in SAAM’s exhibition, Pattern and Paradox, that were ...

Smucker, Janneken and Umberger, Leslie. 2024. Pattern and Paradox: The Quilts of Amish Women [Exhibition catalog] Washington, DC: Smithsonian American Art Musem in association with D. Giles Limited.

Bread baking, home gardening, and family dinners have become staples of #quarantinelife. To some, it feels like a return to “simpler” times. But to many communities, these activities have been a way ...